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Also banking up earth and repressing wood. A method of treatment used to address depressed liver qì causing impaired splenic movement characterized by rib-side pain and distension, no thought of food or drink, abdominal distension and rumbling intestines, thin stool, white slimy tongue, and a stringlike pulse.

Medicinal therapy: Liver-coursing medicinals such as bupleurum (Bupleuri Radix, 柴胡 chái hú), unripe tangerine peel (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride, 青皮 qīng pí), costusroot (Aucklandiae Radix, 木香 mù xiāng), and Buddha’s hand flower (Citri Sarcodactylis Flos, 佛手花 fó shǒu huā) are combined with spleen-fortifying medicinals such as white atractylodes (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, 白朮 bái zhú), poria (Poria, 茯苓 fú líng), coix (Coicis Semen, 薏苡仁 yì yǐ rén), and dioscorea (Dioscoreae Rhizoma, 山药 shān yào). Spleen-fortifying liver-coursing formulas include Free Wanderer Powder (逍遥散 xiāo yáo sǎn) or Costusroot and Amomum Six Gentlemen Decoction (香砂六君子汤 xiāng shā liù jūn zǐ tāng) plus alpinia (Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Fructus, 益智仁 yì zhì rén), officinal magnolia bark (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex, 厚朴 hòu pò), and medicated leaven (Massa Medicata Fermentata, 神曲 shén qū).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on ST, SP, CV, and LR. Needle with drainage at LR-14 (Cycle Gate, 期门 qī mén) and LR-3 (Supreme Surge, 太冲 tài chōng), and with supplementation at BL-20 (Spleen Transport, 脾俞 pí shù), BL-21 (Stomach Transport, 胃俞 wèi shù), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn), and SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo).

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